I've been chasing down a number of schedule issues recently like many
others and found they were broadly grouped as
1. Failure to boost CPU frequency with powersave/ondemand governors
2. Processors entering idle states that are too deep
3. Differences in wakeup latencies for wakeup-intensive workloads
Adding topology into account means that there is a lot of
machine-specific behaviour which may explain why some discussions
recently have reproduction problems. Nevertheless, the removal of
LAST_BUDDY and NEXT_BUDDY being disabled has an impact on wakeup
latencies.
This RFC is to determine if this is valid approach to prefer selecting
a wakee if it's eligible to run even though other unrelated tasks are
more eligible.
kernel/sched/fair.c | 131 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
kernel/sched/features.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
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